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Invertible field transformations with derivatives: necessary and sufficient conditions

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arxiv 1907.12333 v1 pith:C2H5BQ2T submitted 2019-07-29 hep-th gr-qc

Invertible field transformations with derivatives: necessary and sufficient conditions

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We formulate explicitly the necessary and sufficient conditions for the local invertibility of a field transformation involving derivative terms. Our approach is to apply the method of characteristics of differential equations, by treating such a transformation as differential equations that give new variables in terms of original ones. The obtained results generalise the well-known and widely used inverse function theorem. Taking into account that field transformations are ubiquitous in modern physics and mathematics, our criteria for invertibility will find many useful applications.

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